Spotify API: Unknown owner of Discover Weekly playlists

[D4RKT1N]

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Device

Web API

Operating System

Linux

My Question or Issue

Hello Spotify team,

Please forward this to the dev department 🙂

I really like my Spotify Weeklies, so I built a python script for weekly backups using spotipy.

I also pinned my brother's weekly spotify playlist, so simply searching by the term "Discover Weekly" returns 2 playlists, and there is no way to determine which playlist belongs to whom.
So unfortunately I can't check which playlist is mine.

Both playlists have "spotify" set as the owner, and there are no other parameters indicating which user the playlist was generated for, at least which I could find.
It would be great if you could indicate the original user's id on auto generated spotify playlists in api responses.

Thank you for your help!!

[Ximzend]

If the playlist IDs are different, you can hard-code them in your script.

[D4RKT1N]

Thank you for the input, will wait for monday and check if the playlist id changes or not.

If it doesn't change, your suggestion should work.

It would be great If there would be a consistent method to determine ownership any ways. If I find a way to do this I will update you here 🙂

[Lefebvre]

Hard coding this in isn't really a sufficient solution. If we want to build apps that build on top of Discover Weekly then we have to go through a whole flow of users selecting "their" playlist. I understand that might be desired, but if not desired it's not right that we can't differentiate from the API itself.

For example, Spotify itself notes "Made for [username]" in the playlist "owner" metadata section. But, this is not part of the API.

If someone finds a solution for this I'd love to learn! I also will be trying to find a workaround, but don't think I'll be successful.